Best Posts in Thread: North Korea Threats

If you have gangrene in a leg, do you amputate the whole leg or wait until the body dies? If it is both legs? If it is all 4 limbs? I think most would agree with amputation as it gives hope of survival. So if NK continues its aggression and firing missiles over foreign countries (and what a risk of one tiny error causing it to land in that country) then it becomes 'a gangrene' too risky to leave and it should be decimated. As a person who highly respects most human and other life it seems callous to say that but do we choose 10 million to die now or 1 billion in the future? Some problems cannot be ignored and NK has been ignored for far too long. And I think it will send a message to other potential nuclear states.

 

Right now the world is faced with two unstable major players in this game of brinksmanship.
Keep your fingers crossed folks.

 

I doubt it.
I think many people living close to danger prefer to "carry on / ignore" for as long as they can, rather than uprooting their entire lives and become a part of the world's refugee flows. In many cases they not even lived to regret such a decision.
Think of many of the Jewish and Roma people before WW2 if you need an example.

 

The threat to the ruling regime in N. Korea is not from the outside, but from the inside. All messages and threatening actions coming from N. Korea are propaganda aimed at its own citizens. Development of nuclear weapons is a story which is the driving vision of the nation. It's N. Korea's version of the man on the moon. However, this development of nuclear weapons is still a threat to world security and could create a domino effect of further proliferation.

I don't see any other option than to admit N. Korea to the club of nuclear powers. International pressure was a given, but the outcome the U.S. demanded was not. Just because the U.S. has demanded that N. Korea disarms, doesn't mean the solution is a pre-emptive strike. The U.S. strategy changes as the reality changes. It's a fluid situation. The idea of MADD still holds water. All the U.S. can do is assure allies that the U.S. will continue to provide the umbrella of a response to any nuclear attack.

The regime of N. Korea is bat-sh*t crazy, but I'm not sure that the Korean border is much worse of a flash point than the border between Pakistan and India.